My Office Studio

I love my little creative space! Do you have somewhere special where you can dream, and make things? Although it's just really small, I enjoy being in my little home office/studio, surrounded by all the things I love.

I have my antique and vintage rolls of wallpaper stored in this old French (huge!} trash can, so that I can see their happy colors and textures to inpsire. Some of my very favorite vintage Scalamandre Velvet & Silk fabric, too, that I am saving for a few very special projects.

On the small windowsill of the bay window, a little group of antique French Boudoir Dolls waiting to be photographed for the website. Sometimes the windowsill is empty, sometimes it's filled with a few of my very favorite antique "finds" for a short time.

You have to love this girl's fancy Pink shoes! Not sure how she feels being perched on top of all the vintage hatboxes so high, but she does have a great view of the little school across the street and all the children who come and go, laugh and play, and carry their backpacks home each afternoon filled with books and homework. {she'll hear them too, when they let out their traditional "whoop" at the end of the school year soon.

Across the room, two friends are perched on the restaurant racks filled with storage boxes. Not the most glamorous setting, but badly needed for storage, so they make the best of it together.

Here is a larger view of the racks behind my desk. I can hide my printers, scanners etc., the boxes, and even the girls if I want to, behind the white Linen curtains.

A row of six filing cabinets are needed to store all the auction catalogs, new product catalogs, swatches and everything else that needs space in my office. That doesn't mean it can't be decorated a little on the top, though, does it? Here is where I keep my little wooden shop drawer~cabinet I bought from a Parisian Millinery Shop, filled with vintage millinery flowers and ribbons.

Everything changes all the time in my office. Right now, I have a beautiful antique French Jewelry Box filled with antique and vintage "paste" necklaces and bracelets. Total eye candy!

On the wall on one side of the racks, my vintage coat rack holds a few of the things I love, an antique French alencon lace flapper wedding dress, a sweet little girl's dress, and a few paper cones I made long ago that I used to sell. Underneath, a basket filled with vintage fabrics waiting for me to finish designing a new line of pillows for FrenchGardenHouse.

Finally, this is the view from the other side of the desk, a shelving unit badly in need of better organization and design. I'm a little messy, I just pretend when I'm messy with pretty things it doesn't matter as much. {but it does, I know!}

I'd love to hear about your own studio or office ~ What do you like to look at and surround yourself with in your creative spaces? Are you a little messy like me, or totally neat and clean?

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